LiveJournal: Writers Block

Oscar Wilde, a dandy’s dandy, once said that “we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” What unnecessary possession can you not live without?

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A unix box !!!

Computers are not a necessity, but I can’t afford enough books or cellular minutes to replace the internet lol.

Invent a political party for the nation in which you reside. What does your ideal platform consist of?

In this economic climate, not all employers are able to give raises. What perks would make you happy in lieu of a raise?

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Hmm, I suppose it would depend on the situation.

I’m not a greedy person. As far as money goes in life, all I want is enough not to have to worry. So to me the idea of a pay raise has more to do with the cost of living then anything else. As far as a raise in the sense of a reward or something like that, I think a nice(r) discount on company products/services or if available, or a bonus paid in shares of stock in the company or offering the shares at much lower cost would be quite nice. Well, assuming the companies stock was worth something >_>

The ability to spend some of my paid time either working on things that interest me specifically (example: learning a new skill) or some of my vacation time counting as paid time, would be nice.

Even more so actually, because I almost never get to have a vacation, even as a kid I rarely had vacation time lmao.

Pay me enough to get through life without fighting to pay essential bills
Treat me with respect, not like a dog (I’m a human!!!)
Family comes first, job second: period
Let me grow — I love to learn

With all of that from a job, I probably would sleep at my work station every now and then if necessary lol, let along care about perks offered :.

Now if someone would just pay me for using my head……

Do you bring or buy your lunch during the work week? How much money do you spend on food consumed during working hours?

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Used to bring lunch, but it was a waste of time lol.

Get up, get dressed, get ready, go to work, work straight through, come home and either eat lunch or wait for supper time, depending on the time of day.

I’m generally used to eating twice a day plus an occasional snack. My living habits have conditioned me against eating a breakfast, to the point that if I do, I won’t be hungry for lunch until hours later then normal. Some times when work is heavy, I skip eating until dinner, just to much bother: especially if work is early the next day, and eating dinner late wouldn’t be that much good. Then again, until recently I almost broke my inhale dinner, take nap routine :.

Lunch however, is generally my favorite meal of the day hehe.

Where do you spend most of your time on the web?

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I maintain what some might consider a near omni-presence around [SAS], the PC-BSD support forum, and when time permits visit DaemonForums, but over there I very much prefer to read rather then comment.

I have almost non-stop music running on my PC, sometimes I use my local collection. But many of the times I stream radio. 94.9 The Bull is one that I’ve listened to a lot, but lately I’ve spent most of my time on pandora.com thanks to hearing about it. I’ve set up a station that gives me a nice mixture of the kind of music I like, typically country and rock. Some times I listen to BBC Radio 1, I like some of the stuff they put on but not all of it.

Wikipedia makes up a large amount of my daily web intake. Most often articles related to technology or computer science. I’m really horrible when it comes to Wikipedia, I remember once during research for a history exam. I was looking up something from the 19ths century, I forget what — but the text book wasn’t good enough. By the end of it, I wound up reading about the country of Vietnam lol. The hyperlinks and search ability removes what I hate about book-based encyclopedias, it’s easy to find interesting stuff without jumping between many volumes!

When I’m interested in News, I usually check my RSS feeds. Along side my online-stored bookmarks, Flock lists RSS headlines in the my world page. I skim BBC’s international edition, because I find it superior to CNNs various offerings. And also to Slash dot, because I can usually find interesting sci-technical tibbits there that I other wise wouldn’t hear about.

xkcd.com often makes a pass through my web surfing habits, thanks to friends sending me links over AIM lol.

I often use various resources depending on what I’m dong and Google is my search engine, because the results are just better. And unlike other crap (Yahoo, Live search) there is less of a “Is your search engine really this bad, or did most of these results paid to be here?” feeling. Google just works!!! For resources, it ranges from programmer documentation, English-German and English dictionaries, and various software related sites (FBSD ports, sourceforge, etc).

When time permits and I have something to say, I’ll usually try to update my LiveJournal. What good is a LJ unless you actually use it? I’d like to update every day or two, but my life’s not that interesting. In fact, if I did update it that often, it would be rather depressing lol. The one big problem I have on spending time on the web, is keeping up with my E-Mail lol. I’ve got over 130mb of largely unread mail piled up, and that is just in my primary box.

Aside from that stuff, I’m usually logged into 5-7 instant messenger accounts and occasionally either a VoIP or IRC based system to boot. Hmm, considering how little HTML I typically use in posts, I wonder if I could cram any more hyperlinks into this post loool.

What does love mean to you, and why? Have you always felt this way?

Submitted By rynanne

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Hmm, a question I’ve somewhat been pondering since I noticed the entry in the WB/QOTD-block. Mm, what does love mean to me?

I would rather watch the flesh melt off my bones then be without that person.

Perhaps a tad morbid, but particularly apt to the strength required to describe such a thing. In a way, maybe it is that simple as well, for me at least. Because that is generally how I feel. I’m not heroic, I’m not suicidal, but my heart can outweigh good sense — the people I care for have to make it through whether I do or not, because I wouldn’t be able to go on alone.

Any ways:

Love is forgiveness, if you really love someone, can’t you bring yourself to leave wrongs aside?

Love is endless, I believe if you truly do love someone; you never stop loving them. At least, if there is a way to stop, I’ve never found it lol.

Love is blind, each can see the blackest moments of the others life, yet love them just as much. I’m not proud of every moment of my life, nor those of everyone I love, but I still love them. If anyone can’t love me in tern, despite such things. Well, unfuck’em lol.

Love goes in both directions. Hmm, I have no idea but for a strange reason, the film Now, Voyager comes to mind. In my opinion, things have to work both ways… Haha, the Dining Philosophers problem comes to mind, I really think I need to get out more >_>.

Love isn’t a bed of roses. If you expect to ever get along perfectly with someone in this life, you’re positively nuts or dreaming IMHO. Love doesn’t just dwell in special moments, but throughout the relationship. From spending time together, to picking up something on the way home, to the most intimate moments, why have any of it unless you loved them? To quote myself, “If I didn’t love you, I’d tell you to go fuck off instead”

Love takes many forms, we each love different people in different ways. For example, it would be a bit abnormal to feel the same way about ones best friend as ones spouse, unless they are the same person lol.

When it comes to a more personal point, as in “as I do”. Generally, if I love someone, I’ll do just about anything within the terms of the law. In some cases, willing to stretch that a bit… Although that’s never been necessary (thankfully). Also I’m usually more willing to ‘bend’ my schedule when needed, at least when it’s not consistently a one-way affair. Although I almost never ask such things of others (hell, I don’t even ask people to fetch me a drink 99% of times lol), I just don’t like being ‘monopolized’ and won’t do it to others. Or as I have told my family on a number of occasions. Only GOD has a right to control my life without my permission, and you’re not GOD and you certainly don’t have my permission !!!

Mm, one thing that comes to my mind is my parents. As fate would have it, after they got engaged, there was about 20 years difference and 3 marriages between them before they finally got married. Before my father died, they were only together for a few years, but during that time they were very much together. One thing I somewhat regret, is that I never really got to see how they both interacted with one another. Although, odds are if I did, I would’ve spent the first decade of my life rolling my eyes every day >_>. I very much like spending time with people that I care about when I can. Odds are, if I didn’t, I could actually get more done. But that would be a bit selfish. In general, I do generally consider myself self-centered at times. But I do care very deeply about others, I’m just not an extrovert lol. Hanging out with friends and doing something == usually fun, finding a party just for it’s own sake != fun (by comparison).

On the more, hmm I guess the romantic side of the coin. To me sharing life is a very important thing in that regard.

My train of thought arguably wonders as far south as any other mans but that’s not what I truly desire in life. There is a very big difference between sex and making love, and in this day and age the former is easy to come by compared to the latter. I sometimes warn friends when they get to, uhh ‘zealous’, too think closer at what they desire. A ‘good time’ or something lasting — my definition of a lover goes beyond sex.

I suppose, to put it to words beyond the obvious points ^^, if I ever got married there would have to be a lot more in the relationship then just the physical aspects. I have a very active mind, and life has made me, shall we say, devoid of an intellectual counter part for much of my life. Or as I like to think of it, if bra size exceeds brain size times heart capacity; I’m not prone to being involved for long, I already have to deal with enough stupid people.

My mind comes with me, just the same as my heart and everything else does, and what future would there be unless one could share both?

Although I would say one of my favorite songs among what I would classify as ‘love songs’, paints a rather optimistic view of things (imho). I really do think of things a bit differently. I guess you could say, it’s the difference between a song you’d love to dance to with the woman of your dreams, and what you expect out of the rest of life together ^_^. All in all, I expect I’ll probably be single for my entire life; unless GOD has something else in store…. But I guess that’s just life. Still, I think that my idea of a ‘perfect’ moment. Would be to have the love of my life and our children in my arms… That would just be sublime, but I’m to rational a person to count on it happening in my life time.

If you could create a hybrid of any two fruits in the world, what would they be and why? Describe this new fruit (its name, taste, color, ect.)

Submitted By mangostarrr

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Actually someone already has done it for me, it’s called a Clementine.

Why I would go for that instead of something else? I don’t think you could actually cross anything with a Pineapple and still have it taste as good as the original… let along still be worth eating stand alone;-)

If you had to immigrate from your current home, where in the world would you choose to go?

Submitted By [info]purplemer3

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I guess if I was forced to immigrate to another county, there are only about 3 places to consider as a final resting place.

Canada

Because I know a few people out that way, a fairly large portion of the population speaks English, the changes in laws are easy enough to figure out, there are lots of places to go fishing, and the women ain’t so bad either >_>

Great Britain

Again, I know a few people out that way, also have a relative who is originally from England. It’s about as English speaking a country as your going to find outside the United States of America. Plus the differences in lingo and customs of our cultures are not too mind bogglingly different.

Germany

A few people there that I would love to visit, one in particular that I could just imagine the two of us staggering home half drunk ^_^. I’ve always been quite fascinated with the country and it’s culture, not to mention that the “Bart Simpson method” is probably the only way that I would ever learn to speak German *decently*.

I can usually manage well enough with a dictionary, but I try to avoid speaking in German as much as possible… I can’t do the language justice with my American tongues vocalizations :

I would love one day, to have a chance to travel the globe a bit and visit other countries frequently: Canada, the UK, Germany, Italy (I’m half Italian and love the food), Denmark, Norway, Japan (a must visit!), and probably a few others as well. But when it comes to permanently living in another country, what can I say, I am an American at the end of the day. Sure I’d love to spend lots of times else where, why not? But I can’t fathom the idea of what it would be like to never again set foot on my homelands sore again…

My stomach would miss the USA too.

As a good friend has often said, the food over here is very much a salad bowl. And it really does make sense because America is a nation of immigrates, who most surely brought their tastes and cooking styles along with them :-).

You are on a plane that’s about to crash. You have time to make ONE phone call. Who do you call and what do you say?
Submitted By lovelylette_x3

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I’m not married, so fuck’em all 😛

Just kidding lol, I’d probably call home, leave my will and say good bye. Assuming lifes little different from now, probably something like: distribute the computer stuff between Justin and Stevo, [SAS] gets any cash left, E-Mail Wiz and send him a copy of all my [SAS] related files, E-Mail miles, then post on the forums I frequent most. The rest being taken care of by the usual flow of communication to people on/off the net who should know.

Considering my families general technical literacy and the strength of my system logins, I best stay healthy for a good long while lol.

Do you have a remarkable phobia? Does your phobia have a large impact on your life?
Submitted By bitter_melodee

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Well, I do have a mild fear of heights: not strong enough imho to count as acrophobia but it is still there. My fear of heights usually has little effect on my life, I’m rarely more then a few meters off the deck. I’m very uncomfortable in high places and tend to avoid certain areas if at all possible. Such as houses where the upstairs is heavily separated from walking off the edge by railings instead of walls. The kind where it is wide open and if you wanted to go off the deep end, all you need to do is climb over the nearest edge and break a leg lol. I can’t stand being in such an area, makes me nuts.

Although oddly, the concept of flying does not bother me in the least! Maybe because it implies that one would actually have some control of the situation, rather then purely reliant on merciless gravity :.

I don’t really know why I have a fear of heights but I only have one guess. When I was little, my brother (10 years senior) would sometimes pick me up by the ankles and spin me around the room. Luckly I eventually got to big for him to get me off the ground so easy >_>. And I remember once when a friend of my mothers came to visit along with his wife and a few friends. I don’t remember what I said, maybe I told him to F off or something? I dunno but he picked me up by my feet and dangled me in the air until I apologized for whatever I had done to the poor guy lol.

I was generally a good kid and stayed out of trouble as a child, e.t.c. but some times I could be a brat if I tried lol. I was the peaceful couch potato in training, while my brother was the obsessive defiant hell raiser ^_^. Hmm, It’s kind of amazing how far back one can remember, my memory goes about as far as being 4 years old and encompasses most of the time between now and my very first memory.